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Front Matter THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE THE OF POLYNESIAN JOURNAL The Journal of the Polynesian Society VOLUME 118 No.4 VOLUME DECEMBER 2009 VOLUME 118 No.4 DECEMBER 2009 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND COVRDECR.indd 1 1/23/2010 9:23:29 AM THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY Volume 118 DECEMBER 2009 Number 4 Editor JUDITH HUNTSMAN Review Editor LYN CARTER Editorial Assistants JUDITH MACDONALD DOROTHY BROWN Published quarterly by the Polynesian Society (Inc.), Auckland, New Zealand Published in New Zealand by the Polynesian Society (Inc.) Copyright © 2009 by the Polynesian Society (Inc.) Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to: Hon. Secretary The Polynesian Society c/- Mäori Studies The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Auckland ISSN 0032-4000 Indexed in CURRENT CONTENTS, Behavioural, Social and Managerial Sciences, in INDEX TO NEW ZEALAND PERIODICALS, and in ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Volume 118 DECEMBER 2009 Number 4 CONTENTS Notes and News ..................................................................................... 309 Emeritus Professor Roger Curtis Green (1932-2009) ONZM, FRSNZ, Member Nat. Acad. Sci.(USA), Hon. Fellow Soc. Antiquaries (London). Obituary by Janet Davidson ........................................ 311 Articles MERATA KAWHARU Ancestral Landscapes and World Heritage from a Mäori Viewpoint ... 317 ROGER G. SWEARINGEN A Tale of Two Tapa: Their History, Legend and Celebrity Ownership by Robert Louis Stevenson ............................................................. 339 Shorter Communications ROGER NEICH Tutauru, the Adze of Ngahue in Myth and History ............................................ 361 ROGER NEICH AND STUART PARK A Detailed Provenance for Kawe, the Nukuoro Figure Carving in Auckland Museum .................................................................................. 369 Review Article Recent Books about Rapanui GRANT McCALL ..................................................................................... 377 Reviews Butler, S.R., 2008: Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa. ELIZABETH RANKIN ............................................................ 385 Munro, Doug: The Ivory Tower and Beyond: Participant Historians of the Pacific. HAZEL PETRIE .................................................................... 387 Trnka, Susanne: State of Suffering. Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji. STEVEN RATUVA ......................................................... 389 Walker, Ranginui: Tohunga Whakairo: Paki Harrison. The Story of a Master Carver. ROBERT JAHNKE ......................................................... 392 Publications Received ....................................................................................... 395 Correspondence from JIM WILLIAMS and SUSAN HEALY ........................ 396 Publications of the Polynesian Society ............................................................. 398 NOTES AND NEWS Note from the Hon. Editor In light of Roger Swearingen’s story about two tapa connected to Robert Louis Stevenson, RLS’s brief membership in the Polynesian Society is worthy of note. On 23 September 1893, Stevenson was elected to membership of the Polynesian Society as its 178th member. However, shortly over a year later the Journal noted, “With great regret we have to record the loss of another of our members—Robert Louis Stevenson—who died at Apia, Samoa, on the 13th December, 1894.” Contributors to This Issue Merata Kawharu is Director of the James Henare Mäori Research Centre at The University of Auckland. Merata studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated with a doctorate in social anthropology in 1998. Since then, she has been involved in research on claims under the Treaty of Waitangi for tribal groups throughout New Zealand. She has also worked on Mäori development research in areas including resource management, leadership, governance and education. More recently, she has been working on issues concerning indigeneity and World Heritage. Her most recent publication, Tahuhu Korero: The Sayings of Taitokoerau, combines her interests in heritage, identity and traditional knowledge. She is a member of the Mäori Heritage Council and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Board, and has worked on heritage issues, nationally and internationally. Roger Neich recently retired after 23 years as the Curator of Ethnology at Auckland Museum. He continues to serve as a Research Associate at the Museum. His paired major publications Painted Histories: Early Mäori Figurative Painting (1994/2001) and Carved Histories: Rotorua Ngäti Tarawhai Woodcarving (2004) were published by Auckland University Press. Working with the Museum’s collections he has produced Pacific Jewellery and Adornment (2004 with Fuli Pereira) and Pacific Tapa (1997 with Mick Pendergrast) and other volumes, illustrated by Krzysztof Pfeiffer’s photographs. He is currently working on an annotated catalogue of the British Museum’s Mäori collection and completing his study of the English collector James Edge-Partington. Stuart Park has been the Northland Area Manager for New Zealand Historic Places Trust since 1999. Before that he held, among other roles, the position of General Manager Museum Resources at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in Wellington from 1993. His earlier positions were as the Director of the Auckland Museum (1979-93) and Anthropologist at the Otago Museum (1968-79). Roger G. Swearingen is best known for his authoritative guide to the writing and publication of Stevenson’s many prose works, The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide (1980), and the entry on Stevenson in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (2000). His most recent publication is an inclusive, “Recent Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson... 1970–2005”, a two-part review of research published in Dickens Studies Annual, 37-38 (2006-07). He is now finishing a full- length scholarly biography for Faber and Faber Publishers, London, titled Robert Louis Stevenson: Spirit of Adventure. 309 310 Notes & News JPS Online The following press announcement (slightly abridged) was issued by The University of Auckland Library on 2 September 2009: After seven years’ work, The University of Auckland Library and the Polynesian Society are proud to announce the completion of their project to digitise the first 100 years of the Journal of the Polynesian Society. Volumes 1-100 (1892-1992) are now freely available here at <http://www. jps.auckland.ac.nz/index.php> as keyword-searchable texts with links to images of the original pages. The 100 digitised volumes comprise 3775 separate article sections, more than 40,000 pages (each opened and checked) and around 5000 photographs, drawings and maps (each edited and uploaded in two sizes). As the world’s premier academic journal for scholarly articles on the archaeology, anthropology, history and linguistics of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, its many germinal articles chart the course of our growing understanding of the origins and development of human civilisations across this vast Oceanic area. The digitisation project began in 2002 with exploratory talks with the Polynesian Society. Judith Huntsman, the current editor of the JPS, supported the project from its inception. Brian Flaherty, Associate University Librarian, created the website. John Laurie, Digital Initiatives Librarian, assembled and edited the raw files and put them online. The project is powered by b-engine rendering software, a local New Zealand product, developed by Tony Murrow. This produces the fast keyword- in-context search and browse capabilities which distinguish this project. The project’s completion was greatly assisted by funding received from the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA) http://prdla.ucmercedlibrary. info/ <http://prdla.ucmercedlibrary.info/> The University of Auckland Library is now exploring opportunities with the Polynesian Society to put subsequent volumes of the Journal of the Polynesian Society online in future. ROGER CURTIS GREEN 15 March 1932 to 4 October 2009 312 Roger Curtis Green Roger Green was one of the pre-eminent scholars of Pacific prehistory of his generation. His career in the Pacific spanned over 50 years and he was still writing and publishing up until his death. He is renowned for his prodigious publication output but, equally importantly, he is remembered for his generosity and his support for his colleagues and for young and emerging scholars. His influence on Pacific prehistory has been extraordinary. Roger was born in New Jersey. His passion for archaeology was already apparent by the age of 11. His father died suddenly when Roger was 16 and his mother moved the family (Roger and his two sisters) to Albuquerque in New Mexico, believing that this would advance his interest in archaeology. He began his career, therefore, in Southwestern Archaeology, taking undergraduate degrees in both geology and anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He gained a scholarship to Harvard, where he came under the influence of Gordon Willey and Douglas Oliver. It was Oliver who introduced him to the Pacific. In 1958 Roger came to New Zealand as a Fulbright Scholar, visiting
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